So this
last week before I take off on yet another grand adventure, I have been doing
some pre-trip traveling to friends and family in the Midwest. I found myself leaving Chicago on train going
to Wheaton to visit yet another friend and on my way couldn’t help but notice
advertisements along the road and train tracks and one particular sign caught
my eye…Gentleman’s Club. Yeah you might
be thinking of course it caught your eye…but let’s get your mind out of the
gutter for a second and hear me out. It
caught my eye in the way of truly thinking what a Gentleman was.
In the
ways of the world we say Gentleman in a polite way for example the restrooms
can be said the gentlemans room or when teachers catch some students acting out
they may address them as “gentlemen”.
But then on the other hand you have a Gentlemans club where, to my own
presumptions and thoughts, not experience shows what a gentleman is not. A Gentleman as described by dictionary.com
can be said “a civilized, educated,
sensitive, or well-mannered man.” The
term that I would like to highlite is sensitive. Today in culture, it is not the manly thing
to be sensitive but God created us in His image, both male and female and with
that gave us both a sensitive side to connect to each other. I feel that a biblical sense of sensitive
would not be described as men looking at half naked women as they serve them
drinks and/or do other job requirements.
This does not describe the gentleman I think of.
The
book of Mathew has Jesus describing himself gentle and humble in heart, to whom
people can find rest in. Other new
testament books mention “gentle” with other words such as humble, love,
nonviolent, patient and quiet spirit. I
could continue to draw an explicit picture of what a gentleman’s club is like
from hearsay but will refrain as I am sure you already have your own picture
and need no further descriptions. All
that to say that the words as mentioned above like love, humble and the such do
not match with my thoughts of gentleman’s club.
Where have we turned when a term with which should hold high honor to be
called such a gentleman is now associated with a perversion of the truth.
I restate my title, I with saying I can’t wait
for the Gentleman’s Club because in a matter of a few short days I get to
reconnect with C squad leadership and a day later the rest of C squad, to whom
all I see in them is proper gentlemen.
Men who fit the biblical term to a T and whom I can’t wait for them to
dive deeper into the sensitivity that the Lord has placed into them, so that
they may show the women on C squad who men truly are, God fearing and God
loving men. Men who show respect to
women and hold them with high regards and will defend them at all costs. These are the gentlemen who I can’t wait to
“club” with for the next four months.
